D.W. Nance, LLC - Founding & Managing Member
New Orleans, LA 70130 USA
+1.504.717.4730 main
Liberty Hill, TX 78642 USA
+1.512.961.7127 main
888.698.7007 fax
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www.dwnance.comD.W. Nance, LLC is a general practice law firm with extensive experience in many areas of the law including Internet, criminal, entertainment, immigration, media, commercial and construction, and eminent domain law. While our primary goal is to help our clients avoid unnecessary litigation, our trial attorneys have over eight years of first-chair experience in literally hundreds of administrative hearings, civil and criminal bench and jury trials and appeals.
The firm's managing member, David W. Nance, was born October 10, 1966 in El Paso, Texas. He speaks fluent English, German, Spanish and conversational Polish and French, having earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in German and Spanish from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990 and a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree in civil and common law from Loyola University School of Law, New Orleans in 1996, including a semester at the University of Vienna School of Law.
Mr. Nance has been an associate of Pünder, Volhard, Weber & Axster (merged with Clifford Chance in 2000) in Warsaw, Poland; of counsel for Muñoz de Toro & Muñoz de Toro in Buenos Aires, Argentina; an Administrative Law Judge and an Assistant Attorney General, Transportation Division managing the Administrative Law and Contract/Construction Law sections representing the Department of Transportation for the State of Texas. Since entering private practice, he has served as General Counsel for numerous Internet-based and traditional companies across the U.S.
Practice Areas
Administrative
All Internet Related Activities
Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) - mediation
Business- from startups to public companies
Class actions
Construction (also highway construction and maintenance)
Corporate CounselCriminal
DUI
Elder Law
Entertainment
Family
Immigration - including deportation & asylum litigation
Intellectual Property - domain names, copyright and trademark
International - private & multinational organizations
Litigation - civil trials and appeals
Media
Real Estate - including expropriation and inverse condemnation
Taxation
Wills/Trusts/Probate
State Supreme Courts
Florida
Louisiana
New York
Texas
Federal U.S. District Courts
Eastern District of Louisiana
Middle District of Louisiana
Western District of Louisiana
Northern District of Texas
Southern District of Texas
Eastern District of Texas
Western District of Texas
Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals
Fifth Circuit
Legal Publications & Presentations
Lex Feuilleton columnist in Modern Domainer magazine
Author, "What You Need to Know About DotAsia" in the June/July 2007 edition of Modern Domainer magazine
Co-Author/Co-Speaker, “Handling Fraudulent Construction and Maintenance Claims” for TxDOT, Construction and Maintenance Division, Annual Construction Conference, March 2005
Author/Speaker, “L’État, c’est moi: Suggested Methods for Enforcing Administrative Laws Ethically, Professionally, Efficiently, and Successfully,” for OAG, Transportation Division, Ethics/Professionalism in Administrative Law, March 12, 2004
Co-Author/Co-Speaker, “E.D. JURISDICTION: How to Get and Keep the Right to Take Land” for OAG, Transportation Division, Eminent Domain Law Conference, December 18, 2003
Author "Real Estate: Poland" in the October 1998 edition of International Financial Law Review
Wrote "Corporate Governance: Poland" in the April 1998 edition of International Financial Law Review
Author "Doing Business in Europe: Poland" in the June/July 1997 edition of AsiaLaw
David W. Nance
